BostonGIS

I've been thinking for a long time about creating an HTML based X3D viewer to visualize PostGIS 3D geometries. Now that I've started to document the new SFCGAL features, the need became more pressing. So I've created a very rudimentary one. You can check out the code on my github page https://github.com/robe2/postgis_x3d_viewer. I'm hoping to expand it in the future to allow people to pick materials for their geometries and also allow people to save the generated scene as a full X3D document.

It utilizes the X3DOM Javascript library and JQuery for injecting X3D objects into the scene. I'm really excited about X3DOM JS. It was fairly trivial to work with and integrate the ST_AsX3D function. Utilizing it will help me stress test the ST_AsX3D function and patch up the holes in it. When I developed the function I was only interested in 3D geometries and didn't think too much about collections either. So as a result the function is kinda broken when working with 2D or Geometry Collections.

Features and Limitations

• It has one scene and every query you do writes into the scene. This allows you to dump a bunch of objects on the same white board using different queries.
• Similar to Raster Viewer I created a while ago, it's got a query log and a color picker. The color picker allows you to color each query output differently. I hope to augment this to allow picking different materials too.
• Requires either .NET or PHP and of course a PostGIS 2+ enabled database
• Similar to the Web raster viewer I created, it can only handle a query that outputs a single geometry (geometry mode) or an X3D scene snippet (raw mode)